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Lab number
S-3360
Field number
90-DCA-504
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
8 km northwest of the head of Bernier Bay, 37 m asl, Baffin Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
47 G/04
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
5200 ± 90
Normalized Age
5340 ± 90
δ13C (per mil)
-16.2
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
muddy gravel on a raised beach overlooking Bernier Bay
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
OgHv-VP: Periotic bones were collected from a bowhead skull 90% embedded in well drained beach gravel, extending below frost table. The skull is 180 cm wide.

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